Kinematically redundant robots possess more degrees of freedom than those strictly required to execute a given task. Such a charac- teristic gives the system a higher degree of dexterity and mobility that can be exploited ...

In the field of logistics, the study of systems that follow the recommended requirements of the ``Industry 4.0'' is now of paramount importance. Since traditional hierarchical and centralized control architectures have ...

In decentralized systems, the control loop between robots, sensors, actuators and processing units does not close on the same physical device, but through a communication network on which the explicit or implicit exchange ...

The thesis is focused on statistical methods to characterize, mitigate, and counteract distributed network attacks. When coping with distributed network attacks such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, two ...